Find your design scents
DetNews.com, MI - Nov 24, 2006… Harry Slotkin has a candle that combines mandarin orange, cinnamon, clove, pine and eucalyptus. Slatkin also has scented rocks in his holiday collection. …

Fine Living: Wreath your home in style
Marin Independent-Journal, CA - Nov 25, 2006… Mix those greens, too. Some will last longer such as eucalyptus and lemon. “They’ll dry out, too, but they’ll still retain the shape and scent,” Gregory says. …

Happy Holiday Shopping
Pasadena Star-News, CA - Nov 25, 2006… Aboriginal groups. They are three-foot-long pipes made out of eucalyptus, bamboo or other material and decorated in various styles. They …

Tree-mendous makeover set for south Torrance
Daily Breeze, CA - Nov 16, 2006… Last month, Continental sought permission to reduce a grassy berm and cut down hundreds of mature eucalyptus trees that now curve around its Skypark campus. …

A Little Peace With My Peas, Please
Treehugger, NY - Nov 20, 2006… Moshe Basson of the Eucalyptus restaurant in Jerusalem and Nabil Aho of the Restaurant Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center made a menu from traditional Biblical food …

Read a rambling or two 
WARNING: The following column has absolutely no structure whatsoever and would make excellent lining for a hamster cage. Sorry about my extended absence, folks! Please — let me explain myself.

Poetry from The Blackbird’s Nest 
The poets and verse associated with Queen’s University in Belfast is celebrated in a new anthology, edited by Franks Ormsby. Among the writers featured are Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin and John Hewitt. Below are a selection of the poems included in the book, The Blackbird’s Nest.

Deep Throat: New Voices From Israel 
Israel’s small jazz and improvised music community includes a high proportion of scholars from the country’s music academies.

Gifts you’ll remember giving to those who can’t shop the malls 
This is the big shopping weekend. Everything from DVDs to fleece to iPods will fill the shopping bags of those who are reasonably well-off. High-definition TVs will be in their trunks.

Here’s a glimpse of what each side contends 
WHY JESUS WAS RICH The wise men from the East made Jesus wealthy at his birth: The Rev. Creflo Dollar of World Changers Church International in College Park, Ga., says the Gospel of Matthew proves that Jesus was the recipient of wealth at his birth.

Weekend Beat/ WEEKEND READ: Flushed 
W. Hodding Carter vacations in settings most of us avoid: a London sewer, a facility in Boston Harbor that treats 390 million gallons of waste daily, the Courtyard of Latrines in Delhi.